October10
With most people back at work or about to return, civil servants, it seems, are still not being ordered or persuaded to go back to their desks.
And this has annoyed MP Duncan Smith who cites the war time experience - not his, as he was not born then - when people worked as normally as possible, defying the blitz.
He has a point. Dad used to travel across London to drive his crane on a dangerous Thameside wharf.
I struggled to get to school. My five mile journey from Wandsworth to the emergency secondary school near Clapham Common during the height of the London air bombardment in 1941 sometimes took up to three hours, dodging the bombs to shelter on the way.
One day, alone in our upstairs flat, I watched as a lone German bomber, obviously damaged, fly slowly, directly over me.
There was a totally different public approach and attitude to today’s emergency, a togetherness that is absent today although the danger is less immediate.
Where’s has the famous British spirit gone?
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